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If you're a regular reader of the blog (I love you SO much, really, thank you for being here❤), or if you know me a little bit, you might know that I am not a reading challenge kind of person. Being a mood reader, not really handling strict reading schedules and most likely prefering to mood read whenever I want to, I have never joined a reading challenge, expect for the goodreads one, because it's just so, flexible and un-strict, somehow. For me.
Yet today, I'm making an exception and, yes, I am joining a reading challenge.
I am very, very excited about it. This is definitely a challenge for me, too, because it goes on all year long, it is not that strict and therefore will allow me to participate without stressing out about it too much, either.
So let's do this and officially announce that I'm participating in the Year of Asian Reading Challenge!
This challenge has been created by four of my favorite bloggers of all times, CW, Lily, Vicky and Shealea and the goal is to read as many books written by Asian authors as we can. I am VERY excited, because I realized that there are just SO many books I've been wanting to read written by incredible Asian authors and I'm hoping to get through some of them this year.
Since I don't want to pressure myself too much, I am aiming to reach the very first goal, which is the ADORABLE Philippine tarsier goal and aiming to hopefully read 10 books within the year. Fingers crossed!
Now, I guess it's time to talk about THE TBR and the books I'm hoping to be reading the most with this challenge.
I want to give a shout out to the amazing LitCelebrAsian blog, which is an incredible resource that helped me make my TBR.
You can click on the covers to go to goodreads, if you want to make your TBR grow.
The Speaker & The Storyteller, Traci Chee
Why I want to read it 🔎 I am cheating already by mentioning two books, but well… #sorrynotsorry. I recently, like, this week, finished reading The Reader and I loved it SO much. I can't WAIT to read the sequels to this AMAZING story. Also, you should be reading this. DO IT.
Darius The Great Is Not Okay, Adib Khorram
Why I want to read it 🔎 I have been wanting to read this book for quite a while now, and some fellow bloggers' reviews made me even more eager to read this book. It has family and friendship and is character-focused and deals with depression too and I NEED IT.
Want, Cindy Pon
Why I want to read it 🔎 This is one of these books I've been hearing some praise about from a couple trusted bloggers (CW comes off the top of my mind right now) and I'm SO excited about it. I haven't read a lot of dystopian books lately and I feel like, with that one, I'm ready to get back into it, especially with a diverse, environmental and thoughtful book like that one.
A Very Large Expanse of Sea, Tahereh Mafi
Why I want to read it 🔎 I really enjoy the Shatter Me series (I need the next book, like, right now?) and I've been looking forward to seeing what the author can do in the contemporary genre, my favorite! In addition to that, my favorite Kat has really enjoyed this book, so I'm even more impatient to read it.
Spin The Dawn, Elizabeth Lim
Why I want to read it 🔎I already mentioned that one in my most anticipated reads for 2019, because it sounds incredibly AMAZING and I can't wait.
A Crown of Wishes, Roshani Chokshi
Why I want to read it 🔎 I have now read two books by this author, Star-Touched Queen and The Gilded Wolves and I really enjoyed both, so I definitely want to read more from her. I've been curious about A Crown of Wishes, as it's been said that it's even better tha Star-Touched Queen, so I am very excited.
Picture Us In The Light, Kelly Loy Gilbert
Why I want to read it 🔎 Now this sounds like my kind of contemporary book, with a big focus on family and characters, struggling feelings and complex emotions and that's definitely the kind of book I'm always craving, so I can't wait.
Wildcard, Marie Lu (Or maybe The Rose Society)
Why I want to read it 🔎 So apparently I've been known to start every Marie Lu series known to earth and…. not go on with them and I have no idea why, because I genuinely enjoyed all of these first books in the series?! I'd say I'm a little more excited to get to The Rose Society than Wildcard because of the mixed reviews, though.
Girls of Paper and Fire, Natasha Ngan
Why I want to read it 🔎 Everyone, EVERYONE loves this book around me on the blogosphere and, aerm, I haven't read it just yet. It sounds incredible though and powerful and from what I've seen, beautifully written. Just a little nervous about it because of some triggers, but definitely reading it when I'm ready!
I can't really stop at 10 books… Did you really think that I could? Here are a couple more books on my radar that I really want to read soon!
- A Reaper At The Gates, Sabaa Tahir: I need to read this book, because I need to go on with this series as a whole. I am terrified, friends.
- For A Muse of Fire, Heidi Heilig: I have read the author's debut and enjoyed it and, that one sounds particularily amazing with a bipolar main character and a vivid setting inspired by Asian cultures and French colonialism. Sounds interesting!
- Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix, Julie C. Dao: I enjoyed Forest of a Thousand Lanterns and I am so, very curious about this second book. I've heard it's better than the first one, so I'm eager to get to it!
- Not Your Sidekick, C.B. Lee: This sounds like such a fun, quick and endearing read and I've heard so many great things about it!
- We Hunt The Flame, Hafsah Faizal: I've been anticipating this one for a little while now and, from the snippets I've seen every now and then, even just one sentence on twitter or something.. in addition to being completely awesome, this will be gorgeously written. I can't wait!
- The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang: Honestly, this sounds like the kind of contemporary I could love, with fake dating and adorableness and I'm already SO into this.
Did you read any of these books? Do you have any recommendations for me for this challenge?
Are you participating in #YARC2019? What are some books on your TBR? Any advice to participate in reading challenges? Let me know all of your recommendations in comments!


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A former NSW Labor minister has told a corruption inquiry he was ''gobsmacked'' when his crooked former colleague Eddie Obeid urged him to ''sack the bitch'' in a reference to Sydney Water boss Kerry Schott.
Phil Costa, then water minister, told the Independent Commission Against Corruption on Tuesday that Mr Obeid started lobbying him about infrastructure company Australian Water Holdings ''within four weeks'' of him taking on the portfolio in December 2009.
The commission is investigating allegations the Obeids were ''secret stakeholders'' in AWH and Mr Obeid corruptly lobbied colleagues to favour the company.
The inquiry has heard Dr Schott, then chief executive of the state-owned Sydney Water, opposed a proposal by AWH for a public-private partnership that could have made the Obeids up to $60 million.
Mr Costa said Mr Obeid disparaged Dr Schott in several conversations but one exchange in the Parliament House lift ''stuck to mind''.
''For some reason, he asked me to 'sack the bitch','' Mr Costa said. ''I was a little gobsmacked by it.''
Mr Obeid's barrister, Stuart Littlemore, SC, said he was not ''substantially disputing'' the conversation took place.
Mr Costa said Dr Schott's performance was ''nothing short of excellent''.
The inquiry has heard Mr Obeid was involved in an attempt to ruin Dr Schott's reputation by conspiring to make a false corruption complaint against her.
Mr Costa said Mr Obeid warned him at a dinner to ''keep away from Ms Schott; they're coming after her'', and ICAC investigators later came to his office asking questions about a Sydney Water executive.
Asked who was coming after her, Mr Costa said: ''He did mention that it was somebody on the central coast.''
The inquiry has heard allegations the complaint emanated from the office of former Liberal energy minister Chris Hartcher, who quit the cabinet after ICAC raided his central coast electorate office.
Sydney Water was locked in a legal dispute with AWH over exorbitant expenses it was charging to the public utility under a contract to deliver water infrastructure.
Former Liberal finance minister Greg Pearce told the inquiry he could not believe the ''silly little brawl'' was still raging when he became a minister in 2011.
He said former AWH chief executive Nick Di Girolamo, who he described as a ''bit of a pest'', its chairman Arthur Sinodinos, and its lobbyist Michael Photios inundated him with letters, emails and calls.
Mr Pearce, who felt ''over-lobbied'', said he was ''particularly annoyed'' AWH went over his head to organise a meeting with Premier Barry O'Farrell on May 27, 2011.
He said he felt like ''a schoolboy being called in to explain to the headmaster why he hadn't done his homework''.
Accountant Ian George, the independent certifier of the bona fides of AWH's billings to Sydney Water, had a torrid time in the witness box. He was asked why he thought Sydney Water should be billed for a charity golf day, a $346 bill for two people at Grappa Restaurant in Leichhardt, which included five glasses of Chivas Regal, a $410 bill for ''networking'' at Otto restaurant in Woolloomooloo and limousines for Eddie Obeid jnr.
''The $2200 bill for the Italian Chamber of Commerce gala ball, how does that relate to laying sewer pipes in Rouse Hill?'' asked counsel assisting Geoffrey Watson, SC. Mr George said they were ''mistakes.''
Mr George's evidence will continue on Wednesday.
Also on the witness list are Mr Obeid and his political allies, Tony Kelly and Joe Tripodi .
Earlier on Tuesday, Laurie Brown, a former adviser to Mr Tripodi and Mr Kelly, agreed the three men helped to alter a cabinet minute to reverse a recommendation to reject AWH's proposal for a PPP.
He said Mr Tripodi, then a backbencher, made many of the changes before the minute went to Mr Kelly's office.


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YearCompass is a global movement that mobilises people to sort out their last year and plan their next one in order to have a greater awareness of their lives. New Year's resolutions don't work; planning your year does. The main tool of the movement is the free to download YearCompass booklet that is available in many languages.
On New Year's Eve with our friends, we made a booklet with a few questions to help our reflection and it went viral in 2013. Since then it's become an international movement with more than a hundred volunteers from 25 countries. Today the YearCompass booklet is available in 22 different languages. The self-printed version is free to download from the YearCompass website and had 900.000 downloads last year.
Kossuth Rádió - Interview about the YearCompass movement [Hungarian]
Bukarest Rádió - Interview with Békéssy László / YearCompass [Hungarian]
Érd.FM - Interview with P. Tóth András / YearCompass. [Hungarian]
YearCompass users talk about their experience [Hungarian with English subtitles]
YearCompass is a non-profit organization that relies on volunteering resources, the backbone of which are the volunteers of Invisible University (a Hungarian non-profit organisation that promotes self development for higher education).
And also, our international volunteer community is growing steadily, making YearCompass able to reach more and more countries and people every year.
What's YearCompass, in one sentence?
YearCompass is a free to download booklet that helps you go over your previous year and plan the next one.
How can this help me?
When you live your life, the Average Wednesdays can hide the bigger picture. Most of us live our days as a routine and rarely take a moment to look at it in its completeness. This is where YearCompass can help. The booklet can guide you to think about your year, discover your happiest moments and biggest lessons. It zooms out of the Average Wednesday so that you can see your whole story – and base your decisions on that.
Most of us dream but only a few of us plan. At least effectively. The second part of the YearCompass booklet is all about planning. Helping you turn your dreams into goals and setting you on a course to achieve them. The New Year's resolution does not work. Planning your year does. :)
Why do you do this?
We believe in self-awareness. Self-recognition is one of the key things to become a better human – and we need a lot of awesome humans on this planet. The path is not easy and we enjoy helping anyone who needs help, this is why we created the booklet and the YearCompass movement.
How did you happen upon this idea?
It was 2012 and we wanted to have a worthwhile New Year's Eve with our friends, so we put together a few questions that would help us focus. The event was an absolute success and our idea resonated really well with others. We thought that this could be something useful and decided to make a booklet. The next year, we made it public on the internet. We thought maybe we would have a couple hundred downloads and make a few people happy. Next thing we knew – it went viral.
Do you see results from your efforts?
We have a steadily growing community, the downloads grew 13-fold since 2013. We get letters from all over the world from all kinds of people, telling us that the booklet helped them get a clearer picture of their lives or achieve some long-awaited goal. There are some truly amazing stories among them.
We have four favorite stories among the hundreds that we've received from our community. The first is from a school in the United Kingdom where every student gets a YearCompass booklet and they fill them out together as a school-wide exercise. We didn't even know that they existed until one of the teachers sent us an email asking us how could they donate funds to us. It's just nuts to think that there is a whole school full of children using the YearCompass as an assignment. It's absolutely awesome.
The second is from the Women's Club of Ulanbator. Two years ago we found out by accident that there is a women's club in Asia where the members learn English together. They use the English version of our booklet as a fun exercise. They posted a picture of the first event – we still have it. It's one of our best reminders of why we do this whole thing.
The third story is from a random stranger on Reddit, who – with his own words – " [...] completed this workbook every December for the past three years. In that time, I've completed a marathon, traveled to several new countries, applied for and received grant money, scored my dream job, and more. Take time to reflect on this year and plan for the next one."
The last and most intense story is from John, who is a substance abuse counselor in the U.S. He is using the booklet in group therapy sessions with recovering addicts. He has found that it helps the clients reframe their lives and set goals that can lead them to sobriety. I remember when we first read his letter – it was a truly uplifting experience.
What are your goals for the future?
We would really like this to be a global community. A network of people who help each other on the journey of being better, kinder and more self-aware. The closing of your previous year and the planning of the next one is a relatively short business – you do this around the holidays then you return to the Average Wednesdays. We would like to build a community that is long-term, that can support you through the whole year. A bunch of folks who can tap you on the shoulder when you fall off your path.
We want to publish this booklet every year and reach most everyone in the world. So you know, world domination – just the usual. :)
Do you want to monetize this?
This is not a business for us. We don't want to make the core experience into a product – that would defeat the purpose of the whole endeavor. We want the YearCompass movement to spread rapidly, to reach a massive audience, making them more self-aware, so in turn they can make the world a better place to live on.
Although the booklet is free to download we definitely need some kind of funding to keep running the servers, pay our staff, etc. Currently, we are testing a more Elegant Edition of the booklet that you can buy it for yourself or give as a Christmas gift. Compared to the self-printed pdf version, this is a fancier product with a few surprises. But the questions are the same as in the core booklet that you can download for free. And this will remain the same in the future – you will always be able to download the core booklet for free.
When a new year approaches we cannot help but evaluate. Maybe we only notice how quickly the time passed, how many opportunities were missed (again), how many goals were accomplished (at last), and how many things happened that we wouldn't even have dreamed of. Looking back on your year is a ritual that helps you fulfill this need for evaluation. From time to time, stopping for a moment, taking a step back and looking at where we are headed helps. Slowing down, meeting and spending time with ourselves is not something that can be done in a rush. Mood, determination, curiosity are all needed for looking back on your year.
Every year we find time for this booklet with my wife. We prepare for this in advance, it became quite a ritual. The most interesting thing is comparing the plans from last year with all the things that happened since. This helps align our values and desires with our lives. Oftentimes even thinking through and writing down things make them happen. My hope is that looking back and planning years will yield happiness, experience and support for many of us in the years to come.
Often we feel that we are not the ones in charge of our own destiny and judge our lives rather biased. The YearCompass booklet helps noticing the different shades without crafting a false image. It leads you to find the things to be proud of (there are always things) and the things without you would be better off next year. All this brings more self-awareness. Reading the last page will definitely make you feel more competent and efficient. This is more than a booklet. It is a symbol for a movement, values, improves self-awareness and psychological literacy.
Everyone knows that closure is essential for moving on. Without closure you herd all the events of the past and all the related emotions.
Planning your next year is useful in helping you thinking about the Big Questions in advance that need a lot of resources to be thought about. Setting the goals for next year, knowing beforehand what is there to be done in each area lowers the energy needed at everyday level. Reflecting on this as the year goes by the "only" thing left is doing.
The obvious problem with the Big Questions of life is that they are not easy to answer. "What will happen with me in 5 years?" is a question that is nearly impossible to answer. Breaking it down to smaller parts helps in finding answers. Filling out YearCompass will help you start doing things instead of postponing them forever.
The YearCompass assets repository contains:
The brand name is spelt as follows: YearCompass (capital Y and C, one word).
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When I start the installation, I pass the Archive Integrity, but somewhere during the Graphical installation - it get's stuck, and I get extraction failed message.
I don't really think it's supposed to be connected to the emulation - but since I don't really know what it does while extracting, I thought it might be important to state. (I did manage to xfce on an intel machine, with the same script).
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ROCHESTER — Local state legislators have sponsored or cosponsored a number of bills that will be taken up by various House committees in the coming legislative session.
If the past holds true, some bills may be combined with similar ones, others will be amended or deemed inexpedient to legislate, and a minority will eventually face a vote in the House and then the Senate. Relatively few bills are eventually signed into law by the Governor.
Rochester Republican Laura Jones and Farmington Republican Joseph Pitre have been most active in this field, putting their names, between them, to more than a dozen of the many hundreds of bills filed. A selection follows:
H-0016 is relative to the demand for rent and other damages, and the repeal of the landlord-agent requirement, and is cosponsored by both Jones and Pitre.
"It is trying to make it a little easier for landlords to collect what is owed to them," said Jones, and Pitre said that, as a landlord, he had experienced problems in the past which the present bill tries to address.
H-0075 is relative to the regulation of health clubs, and Jones is one of the cosponsors. Jones said the bill was trying to bring 1970s regulations into the 21st century, now that health clubs "have proved themselves."
H-0076 seeks to repeal the authority for supplemental allowances under the judicial retirement plan, and Jones said that she signed on, "because funds are already stretched to the limit."
Of H-0078, "prohibiting the use of motor vehicle records in any federal identification database," Jones said, "This is a privacy thing. It ensures privacy rights." She also pointed out that the bill has bipartisan support.
H-0125 is relative to licensing requirements for homestead food. Cosponsor Jones said that a previous bill in this area had inadvertently made it more difficult for people to sell chickens.
"We want to encourage small business startups," said Jones, speaking of the farmers' market sector.
H-0234, requiring proficiency on statewide assessment for high school graduation and H-0235, requiring proficiency on the statewide assessment for advancement to grades 4 and 8, both have Pitre as the prime sponsor. He believes that both bills will provide personal incentives for students.
H-0566 is relative to tuition payments for chartered public school pupils. Pitre maintains the Board of Eduction "has been interpreting the (existing) law incorrectly" and that the new bill will bring needed clarification.
H-0567, relative to school district policies on health and sex education, will also bring clarification to this area, said Pitre, without explaining further.
H-0568 requires postsecondary education institutions to compile and submit reports on remedial education courses. Pitre said he cosponsored this bill because there is a gap between many students' abilities when they graduate high school, and what is required of them, starting college.
"We want to get students up to speed and possibly firm up the standards," he said.
H-0608 is relative to children in need of services.
"The last legislature took away CHINS funding. This bill will try to put the funding back, but without the abuses," said Pitre.
New Durham Republican David Bickford (who also represents Strafford) has submitted two bills.
H-0752 would raise the age of minority for juvenile delinquency proceedings from 17 to 18 years of age.
"I have been trying to get this passed since 1995, when Governor Merrill brought the age down," said Bickford, pointing out that 18 is the age of consent
H-0753 would repeal the statute recognizing common-law marriage. At present, Bickford said, if a man or woman can illustrate they have been cohabiting with someone for three years prior to the death of that person, they can claim the inheritance and deprive the children of the deceased.
Bickford said his bill, of which he is the prime sponsor, would require people to formalize their relationship for it to have legal standing.
"You are either married, or you're not. Shotgun weddings are in the past," he said.
H-0242 and H-0243 are bills submitted by prime sponsor Democrat Bob Perry of Strafford, who also represents New Durham.
The first bill is relative to political contributions and expenditures and relative to reporting by political committees.
Perry said this would "1. — require special interest organizations to register with the secretary of state, and 2. — require them to disclose their expenditures."
Perry said that the definition of a political committee would be better defined so as to give the secretary of state the ability to enforce registering and reporting.
"Candidates have requirements, superpacs don't. This bill would equalize things," he said.
His second bill is relative to political advertising, and seeks to amend RSA 664:17 which currently gives a property owner the right to remove, deface or destroy a political sign placed on his/her property.
"My intent is to change the language to bring a little more civility to the process. It will allow for the removal of signs but not their defacing or destruction by a property owner or by a third party," said Perry.
Rochester Republican Warren Groen is the prime sponsor of H-0771 which is "relative to New Hampshire correctional industries."
Groen said his bill is prompted by his 14 years experience with a nonprofit organization in New Jersey, rehabilitating inmates with drug and alcohol issues.
He wants to greatly expand work industries within the New Hampshire prison system.
"Right now 15 percent of inmates can work in work industries. They build furniture, make licence plates, bale hay and have a print shop. These are coveted positions, and I'd like to see 50 to 60 percent of inmates taking part. It is good vocational training, and you know the expression idle hands, idle minds. Right now the program is hemmed in by state regulations," said Groen.
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As a signatory to the Carbon Commitment, formerly the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), Ohio University has committed to becoming a carbon neutral campus by the year 2075. As a result of this pledge, the institution has developed a Sustainability Plan and a Climate Action Plan, both of which outline impressive goals and benchmarks for the university.
Faculty, staff and students throughout Ohio University campuses are working together to realize important goals such as carbon neutrality, increased renewable energy investments, waste reduction and sustainability-related education and research. The entire campus community is called to action to identify roadblocks, discover solutions and celebrate triumphs that can make this university a stronger leader in sustainable development.
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The implementation of the innovative recommended strategies identified by faculty, staff, students, alums and community members requires the support of an entire campus community. Students and professionals must work together to hold the university accountable for the impressive goals it has set for itself.
With your support, we can help fund the many projects required to realize these goals.
Donations made to the "Ohio University Sustainability Fund" will be used to enact infrastructure, curriculum and research projects that can help advance success toward the goals within the Sustainability and Climate Action Plans of Ohio University. Projects will not be housed in one single department or division. In fact, it is the intention of the Ohio University Foundation that these funds will be utilized by all divisions for various sustainability-related projects hoping to advance institutional sustainability efforts.
Donors and invested campus community members are invited to submit project recommendations online. The Office of Sustainability will keep a rolling list of project recommendations and associated costs of each project. When funding amounts near a total that can be utilized for projects, the Ecology and Energy Conservation Committee of the Faculty Senate will review the aforementioned project options and make formal recommendations to the Office of Sustainability. Once a project is selected, it will be submitted to the appropriate entities on campus for approval and implementation. Projects will be announced on the Office of Sustainability website.
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The results of our Name the Cubs contest are in! More than 2,000 of you entered the contest for a chance to name one male and one female lion cub—and the winning names are:
Male cub – Rudo ("love" in Zulu, pronounced ROO-doh )
Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo
Female cub – Busela ("happy and independent" in Zulu, pronounced BOO-sayla )
Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo
Two lucky winners—Tate and Ross MacDonald of Seattle and Pamela Garland of Olympia—are taking home the grand prizes for submitting these winning names, as selected by our panel of zoo judges. That grand prize includes a private viewing at the lion exhibit with a keeper!
Rudo and Busela join their brother and sister, who also received names recently, this time with the help of zookeepers and donors who have helped bring big cats to Woodland Park Zoo.
|Photo by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo.
The other male is now known as Pelo ("heart" in Sotho, pronounced PEE-lo) and the other female as Nobuhle ("the beautiful one" in Zulu, pronounced no-BOO-sche). The Zulu and Sotho names represent languages that are native to a part of the lions' South African range.
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! We received such thoughtful submissions and all of us here at the zoo truly appreciate the time you took to find names and meanings that represent what is so special about these four cubs—the joy they bring to our community, and the inspiration they drive in all of us to do something more for wildlife.
The African lion is the only big cat not protected under the Endangered Species Act, but that doesn't mean it isn't facing pressures that need immediate attention. As few as 32,000 African lions remain in the wild, and their future remains uncertain as human population growth impacts lion populations and the landscapes on which they depend.
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Hoyer Floor Statement on the Republican Budget for Fiscal Year 2013
Katie Grant, 202-225-3130
WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke on the House Floor today in opposition to the Republican budget for Fiscal Year 2013. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery and a link to the video.
Click here to watch the video.
"The Chairman of the Budget Committee has spoken of a choice between two futures. He is correct in framing it this way. The budget he proposes would end the Medicare guarantee, cut taxes for the wealthiest, and place our economic recovery at risk.
"Robert Greenstein, head of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, described the Republican budget this way – and I quote: 'It would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times.'
"That is a future we simply cannot afford. In fact, the Republican proposal is not a realistic budget at all. Nobody believes in its premises – that we as a nation are suddenly going to decide to savage our domestic programs and leave the most vulnerable out in the cold.
"This disastrous budget ends the Medicare guarantee, increasing costs for seniors. It cuts Medicaid by a third and turns it into a block grant program, which will jeopardize access to affordable health and nursing home care for seniors, the disabled, and low-income families who depend on it. Furthermore, it repeals the critical patient protections and cost containment policies of the Affordable Care Act. Their budget slashes funding for programs that help the vulnerable, enable our children to afford college, and provide health coverage to those with long-term disabilities. And it puts millions of jobs and our economic recovery at risk as a result of drastic spending cuts. At the same time, this budget extends the Bush tax cuts – including $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy – and cuts an additional $4.6 trillion in taxes on top of that. It does all that without saying how it will be paid for – presumably by eliminating deductions that middle class families rely on to send their kids to college and afford their homes.
"Democrats have proposed a different future: one where we invest in a strong economy, and ask everyone to contribute their fair share. A future where the Medicare guarantee is preserved and seniors' health security is protected. A future where students who work hard, take responsibility for themselves, and get accepted to college won't have to worry about whether they can afford to go. A future where we help businesses create millions of jobs here at home that won't be shipped overseas. A future where the deficit is reduced in a balanced way, with everyone pitching in.
"Any of the Democratic alternatives would be far better than this Republican budget.
"We have a choice between two futures, and that choice couldn't be clearer. I urge my colleagues to stand together in defeating this budget and passing one that will bring our middle class and working families not a grim future but a brighter one."


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NASA's ambitious new plan to capture an asteroid and bring it to the Moon may seem exotic and overly complex, but it arose from relatively mundane scientific considerations and percolated among space scientists for more than two years before Administrator Charles Bolden announced it Wednesday.
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It will not be simple. Planners must find a candidate asteroid much smaller than those routinely detected by ground-based telescopes. Then, in 2019, a robotic spacecraft using advanced solar electric propulsion will have to travel to the asteroid and capture it, probably using an inflatable device like a large fabric bag.
Finally, the spacecraft must carry the asteroid to the vicinity of the Moon and decide whether to place it in lunar orbit or park it on the lunar far side where the combined gravity of Earth and the Moon will hold it in place. Only then would astronauts pay the asteroid a visit. NASA has budgeted $105 million this year to fund initial work on the project. NASA officials say they can do the whole job for $2.5 billion.
Asteroid capture became an attractive option for NASA in 2010 after President Obama decided to scrap plans for astronauts to return to the Moon and announced that human space flight would instead focus on sending astronauts to an asteroid by 2025.
The dilemma for mission planners was that candidate asteroids were scarce, and sending astronauts to an asteroid in many respects would be just as difficult as sending them to Mars. So, reasoned some scientists, instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, why not bring the asteroid to the astronauts?
"You get into it, and it becomes obvious that this is the only way you could get astronauts to an asteroid in the 2020s," said Louis Friedman, executive director emeritus of the Pasadena, California-based Planetary Society. "The crazy part is going out and getting an asteroid, so you put that part in the robotic world. Then you open the mission up to the astronauts."
Friedman was one of three co-leaders of a 2012 study sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies to determine the feasibility of an asteroid capture mission. The team included experts from most of the NASA centers and a variety of other government, academic, and outside institutions.
The Keck study, the most comprehensive treatment of the capture plan, was published last year. It determined that the optimum-sized asteroid that could be captured and delivered to the vicinity of the Moon by 2025 would be around 7 meters (23 feet) in diameter with a mass of 500 tons. NASA briefers this week agreed with the mass, but increased the diameter to 10 meters (33 feet) and suggested the asteroid could reach the Moon as early as 2021.
The target asteroid would be a "near-Earth object" with an orbit that brings it within 4.6 million miles of Earth. The rock would be "smaller than what we look at normally," says deputy NASA administrator Robert Lightfoot, one reason NASA is doubling the size of its asteroid detection budget to $40 million next year. Telescopes would detect candidates, track their orbits and determine their composition.
To reach the asteroid, capture it and bring it to the Moon, NASA wants to use a robotic spacecraft equipped with low-thrust engines to travel from Low Earth Orbit to the candidate asteroid. The NASA budget allots $45 million next year to accelerate development of high-powered solar electric propulsion.


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I'm the guy who doesn't like to get pushed around. I'm the guy that likes to stand for what he believes in. I'm the guy that doesn't follow the crowd. I'm the guy that has morals, that believes belittling someone is not only wrong, but is an example of horrible leadership. I'm a shit bag.
Yesterday, a fellow Lance Corporal of mine, and a very good friend, caught his rifle on his trouser pocket during the middle of drill and ended up dropping it. Of course, every person there went straight to drill instructor mode after seeing it. "Push, bitch! Push!!" "Follow it." "Oh good mother fucker. Just drop your fuckin rifle, too," as if he meant to do it on purpose. So today, our dumb ass SNCOIC decided it would be a great idea for him to carry one of those rubber rifles around all day to "make sure he can properly handle a rifle like a man." As soon as I saw this, I went up to my buddy and mentioned that he should probably say something considering this could very well be a case of hazing. He didn't think he should bring it up because of the ramifications that that particular word would bring up. I decided if he wasn't gonna bring it up then I was gonna help out a friend and talk to his Corporal, which by the way is an easy going person. She listened to me and was unsure if she should bring it up, mainly because she doesn't have a set of kohonas (spell chk). If she wasn't gonna do anything then I was gonna go to a buddy of mine that was just recently promoted to Corporal (Notice I'm going to nobody at all in my immediate chain of command). He believed the same thing I did about the lance and decided to go talk to his NCOs, something I wish I could do only this whole rank thing was the difference in me being a child and an adult. As good of a lance as I am, I of course eavesdropped on them. His Sgt went on saying that he believed that he was being hazed as well but was gonna wait until the next work day to say something, which makes no sense to me at all. He also went on saying that what he was afraid of was that if it was in fact brought up to their SNCO that he would find some loophole sayin that it was "extra military instruction." So nothing came of that until about 20 mins later. I passed his SNCO in the hall and he stopped me and proceded to call me every name in the book because I am getting the idea of hazing in the head of his Lance Corporal. He then asked me if I even knew the order on hazing. Of course I told him the correct order, which in essence caught him off guard. Once he gathered himself, he then went on asking how I knew it and I told him that I looked it up earlier on my phone. He took that and ran with it, saying that I never do anything at all but play on my phone yadda yadda yadda. I knew I had him beat and it felt great. He then told me that I need to go check out a rifle at supply as well (notice he didn't say what I needed it for, though we all knew). Of course I did cause it was a lawful order to check it out. I couldn't wait to get back to the shop so the second he told me that I needed to carry it around all day, I could request mast on his ass in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I really didn't see him the rest of the day, considering at this point it was closing time.
Moral of the story, don't be afraid of standing up to some washed up, stick-in-their-ass SNCO's because they might yell at you. If you believe that you are in the right and they are in the wrong, go for it. The way I looked at it, if for some reason this were to back fire on me, it wouldn't phase me for two reasons: 1) He had way more to lose than I did and 2) I'm not making the same mistake twice. Remember, friends don't let friends reenlist.
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ADDED: My analysis of standing is at that link, but we're talking about it in the comments here. Marty Lederman was nice enough to comment and say he appreciated my analysis, so let's look at what he wrote about the case. He says that the standing analysis is "complicated -- real FedCourts inside baseball" and opines that ordinary people are unlikely to sit through the explanation.
This really is a problem with fedcourts doctrine. You have strange, alienating doctrine that prevents courts from doing what it seems that courts are for: deciding the case on the merits. Judges act as though they are carrying out some higher calling when they decline to act, and maybe they are, but if what they are doing is incomprehensible to people, they are likely to draw their conclusions about the quality of the case based on the outcome.
Lederman says that the Supreme Court's standing doctrine is "a mess" -- but that's mainly true because the Court is composed of some very different individuals, some of whom would never have adopted the constitutionalized 3-part injury-in-fact test in the first place and because the test must be applied in complex and varied fact settings, which has given the Court's swing voters room to affect outcomes in a pragmatic fashion. The mess could be cleaned up pretty easily by replacing a justice or two. Which way do you want it cleaned up? Would you rather have it kept a mess than cleaned up the way you don't like? If yes, then you should understand why we've got the mess.
Marty observes that whatever you might say about the injury to these plaintiffs, it can at least be said that the program they challenge is injuring someone, and it's a real, not a hypothetical controversy. The constitutional aspect of standing doctrine is a gloss on the Article III definition of "the Judicial Power" in terms of "cases" and "controversies," and Marty seems inclined to revive the way the Warren Court used to talk about standing doctrine. We definitely have a real controversy, so why stress the concrete and particularized injury to these plaintiffs? He blames the defendants for withholding the information about who the program has actually targeted: "What constitutional value is served by allowing that type of uncertainty -- wholly a function of the government's own refusal to identify the victims -- to be grounds for avoiding a resolution on the merits?"
I think the answer, for those who support the current standing doctrine, is that standing is required across the board, and you don't get to create exceptions to the requirements in individual instances where the case seems justified. Standing is a matter of the constitutional limit on judicial power, so nothing that the parties do can enlarge it. Even if the Executive Branch wanted the federal court to decide a case beyond the Article III judicial power they would have to decline. If Congress passed a statute granting jurisdiction beyond the judicial power, it would be unconstitutional. These constitutional limits on the courts' power are just as important as the limits on the executive power that you wish they would address.
That's the strong view of standing -- which goes along with a strict view of separation of powers. Not all the justices support the strong view all the time. I note that in Laidlaw, the case that Judge Gilmore relied on, Justice Scalia was forced to rail about this sort of thing in dissent (joined only by Justice Thomas).
And let me flag this new post by Patterico, which shows that Glenn Greenwald was wrong when he asserted that only the dissenting judge in the 6th Circuit case had anything to say about the substantive merits of the plaintiffs' claims. In fact, Judge Batchelder wrote that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim under Title III and FISA. As quoted by Patterico (who adds emphasis):
It is undisputed that the NSA intercepts international, rather than domestic, communications, so . . . Title III does not apply. Moreover, because the plaintiffs have not shown, and cannot show, that the NSA engages in activities satisfying the statutory definition of "electronic surveillance," the plaintiffs cannot demonstrate that FISA does apply.Patterico is right, but I'm not impressed by the way Batchelder disposed of these two claims on the merits. With respect to the plaintiffs' constitutional claims, she said that the plaintiffs' lacked standing. But the same lack of standing would apply to the statutory claims and should have precluded her from reaching the merits. And Batchelder ought to have wanted to coordinate with Gibbons on a single opinion. It looks rather obvious to me that Batchelder wanted to have it both ways and be strict about standing and still talk about the merits. That doesn't add up. And Gibbons did well to refuse to join it.
I can't stand Greenwald's posturing about how all the judges who have reached the merits have found the program illegal. It's not surprising that the judges who are lax about standing also lean toward restricting the President's power in national security. These are both liberal positions. The judges who stop at the level of standing are the judges who would be most likely to find the program legal. So Glenn's point doesn't impress me. Patterico shows that Glenn is wrong. But ironically, Batchelder would look a whole lot better if Glenn were right.


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In tight times, Cape Cod remains the place for weddings
An open-air trolley ride, group photos taken on the beach, a sunset ceremony on a whale-watching cruise ship.
An open-air trolley ride, group photos taken on the beach, a sunset ceremony on a whale-watching cruise ship.
Those are just a few of the ways today's couples are celebrating their marriages on Cape Cod. For years, brides have chosen the Cape for their special day because of its unique setting and romantic appeal. There is something for every taste and budget — from lavish affairs at posh Cape resorts to more simpler ceremonies highlighted by a backyard clambake reception.
In the current economic climate, many couples are looking for ways to cut corners without sacrificing the charm and ambiance the Cape has to offer.
"The Cape is always a great wedding destination spot — it's a short trip to far away," said Patti Lloyd, vice president of sales at the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce.
Lloyd doesn't believe the Cape's wedding industry is being negatively impacted by the economy, though she does agree brides are cutting corners to make a Cape wedding possible. Her office has received an increase in inquiries about beach weddings and alternative venues.
"We are seeing people doing smaller, more intimate family gatherings…but there is a lot of value for the dollar here," said Lloyd.
Kate Ford is a bride-to-be living and working in Boston, but she knew there was only one place to have her wedding.
"I spent every summer [on the Cape] growing up; it's my favorite place." Ford and her fiancé booked the reception venue for their August wedding back in November, along with many of their vendors.
Since the fall, they have seen some wedding-related prices rise and extra charges pop up. "We're not sure if the charges are related to the economy or not," Ford said. Despite the higher cost of the Cape — with or without an economic crisis — Ford has always wanted to have her wedding here.
"We prioritized to make the Cape work for us…We knew were going to cutback on other things to afford the Cape."
Mary-Lou Blanchard, of Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises, understands the appeal of the Cape; she moved here full-time after summering on the Cape for many years. "Cape Cod is such a great destination; it calls to you."
She also got married here about four years ago, which is the same time that Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises began to offer private charter cruises for weddings and corporate events. "It's something different and on the water…It really seems to have taken off," Blanchard said.
An affordable wedding venue on the water is hard to find, according to wedding planner Allison Liset of Elegant Engagements. Liset has worked exclusively on Cape weddings for 10 years and she has "seen all the ebbs and flows of Cape weddings." More recently, she has noticed brides scaling back on the little extras and replacing favors with charitable donations in guests' names. "It's more altruistic and is also saving money," Liset added.
Despite the economic outlook, Blanchard hasn't noticed a change in the wedding inquiries that Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises receives, although it is early in the season. "I think this is an affordable way to go," said Blanchard. "[Brides] aren't cutting back [with us]; they're making additions."
Blanchard adds that in the few years that Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises has been doing private parties and weddings, they have become an important part of the company's revenue. "I don't think the wedding market is going to be affected [by the economy]. People want to make their day special."
Lloyd shares that opinion. "A vacation or a wedding is an important part of someone's life. They'll give up something to make a nice wedding happen."
Lloyd also recognizes the importance of Cape destination weddings to the area's economy as a whole. "Weddings are a major part of the Cape's economy—guests are using a lot of other vendors on Cape Cod. There's a domino effect."
Numerous wedding planners agree that the Cape's appeal to brides can withstand economic pressure — even if that means cutting corners or having a smaller wedding. Ford and her fiancé know that some out-of-town guests may not be traveling to the Cape in the summertime with costs as high as they are. But no other place besides the Cape seemed right for Ford.
"Everybody pictures what their wedding will be like. Growing up, I didn't have all the details for my day, but I always knew it would be on the Cape," Ford said.


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I'm hearing that Pandora-Gilboa volleyball coach Brent Newell is leaving the Rockets after one year and returning home to take the Leipsic job.
Leipsic Volleyball Head Coach
Started by Irish Viking 87, Apr 12 2014 03:36 PM
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Posted 12 April 2014 - 03:36 PM
Posted 18 April 2014 - 09:09 AM
Makes sense, both teams hit hard by graduation. Nadler back for Leipsic.
Posted 03 September 2014 - 10:05 PM
Speaking of leipsic congrats to KellyNadler her 1000th career point vs Patrick henry
Posted 04 September 2014 - 08:57 AM
zoesdaddy, on 03 September 2014 - 10:05 PM, said:
It wasn't her 1000th career point, it was her 1000th career kill
Speaking of leipsic congrats to KellyNadler her 1000th career point vs Patrick henry
Posted 09 September 2014 - 07:39 AM
What happened to Leipsic's previous coach? She seemed to do a good job.
Posted 09 September 2014 - 08:21 PM
She got a job offer back home in Southern Ohio so she accepted it. very nice young lady.
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Today Israel's largest English-speaking volunteering organization, ESRA has several thousand members in 20 branches from Nahariya to Eilat, and is run by some 1300 volunteers, augmented by a small administrative staff. Our volunteers help organize activities, run ESRA's management committees, work in the office or in our various charity shops, deliver the ESRAmagazine, tutor schoolchildren in English, and engage in a wide range of other volunteering activities in ESRA's numerous education and welfare projects.
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Claret-and-Cobalt Concede Four after Beckerman Ejected in 57th; Suffer 2nd-Worst Defeat in Team History
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Saturday, July 14, 2012) – Real Salt Lake (11-7-3, 36 points, West #2) couldn't make the third time the charm against the San Jose Earthquakes (12-4-4, 40 points, West #1) on Saturday night at Buck Shaw Stadium, giving up four goals after captain Kyle Beckerman was shown a straight red card in the 57thminute to lose 5-0 and drop their third game of the season to the 'Quakes. MLS leading scorer Chris Wondolowski scored a hat trick to lead first-place San Jose to victory – he now has 17 goals on the year.
RSL started the game uncharacteristically poorly, struggling to connect passes against San Jose's full-field pressure and looking a little sloppy in the back. The fast-paced, direct style of the game favored the Earthquakes, which went ahead through Wondolowski in the 18th minute. Wondolowski – the 2010 and 2011 MLS Golden Boot winner – took advantage of some confusion in the box to put San Jose on top, heading home a bouncing ball from point blank range following a corner kick from San Jose MF Marvin Chavez.
San Jose continued attacking after taking the lead, nearly scoring on several other occasions in the first half. Conversely, RSL couldn't find much of anything in the Earthquakes' final third, struggling to string attacks together throughout the opening frame.
Still, RSL was very much in the game at halftime, trailing just 1-0 at the break. Hopes were raised when the Claret-and-Cobalt started the second half brightly, holding much more of the ball and creating a few half chances in the first few minutes of the final stanza.
But things changed in a big way in the 57th minute, when Beckerman was shown a straight red card for his role in a scuffle at midfield. The fracas started when San Jose MF Sam Cronin took out RSL playmaker Javier Morales, and heated up when Beckerman knocked Cronin to the ground with a retaliatory tackle.
Beckerman's challenge – which was called a foul by referee Allen Chapman – led to multiple players from both teams engaging in a shoving match at midfield. Beckerman was initially at the center of things, but was seemingly pulled away by Chapman before anything too serious happened. Still, the RSL captain was shown a red card – San Jose's Victor Bernardez and Justin Morrow both earned yellows – leaving his team down a man for the final 32 minutes.
San Jose quickly took advantage of their numerical superiority, going up 2-0 in the 63rd minute. FW Alan Gordon notched the goal, tapping in a rebound after Bernardez headed a set piece off of RSL GK Nick Rimando's right post.
Wondolowski put the Earthquakes up 3-0 10 minutes later, losing RSL DF's Jamison Olave and Kwame Watson-Siriboe to flick home a cross from San Jose MF Shea Salinas. Things got worse for RSL in the 79th, when substitute MF Simon Dawkins tapped home a Wondolowski header off of a corner kick to give the Earthquakes a 4-0 lead.
Wondolowski completed his hat trick less than a minute after Dawkins' goal, latching onto a through ball from substitute FW Khari Stphenson at the top of the box before burying a shot inside the far post to make it 5-0.
RSL will look to bounce back from Saturday's humbling defeat on July 21st, when they'll host the Colorado Rapids in the second of three Rocky Mountain Cup matches this year. RSL will clinch the Cup by winning that match, which will be shown live on CW30 starting at 8:00 p.m. MT.
Click here to access video highlights and the MLSsoccer.com MATCHCENTER for RSL v POR
Real Salt Lake Match Notes – RSL 3-0 POR
- The 5-0 margin of defeat is the second-worst in RSL's eight-year history and the just the fourth time that the Claret-and-Cobalt have given up five or more goals in a game. The last time RSL conceded at least five goals was on Aug. 26, 2006, when the club lost 6-0 to the New York Red Bulls after going down a man in the 8thminute.
- Beckerman's red card was just his third in 288 career MLS games. The all-action defensive midfielder will serve a one-game red card suspension during RSL's match against Colorado on July 21. It will be the second time in five games that Beckerman will miss a match due to suspension – he missed RSL's 2-0 loss at Columbus on June 30 due to yellow card accumulation.
- Beckerman's ejection means that RSL had players sent off both times it played at Buck Shaw Stadium this year, as both Olave and FW Fabian Espindola were shown red cards during RSL's 3-1 loss at San Jose on April 21.
- RSL was without three starters due to injury, missing regular DF's Nat Borchers (left quadriceps strain) and Tony Beltran (aggravation of an adductor injury) and usual MF starter Ned Grabavoy (left adductor strain). Recent acquisitions Watson-Siriboe and Kenny Mansally filled in for Borchers and Beltran, respectively, while MF Luis Gil started for Grabavoy.
- Despite Saturday's loss, RSL's point total of 36 is still the second-best mark through 21 games in franchise history, trailing the pace set by the 2010 squad by just three points.
- New RSL FW – and Salt Lake City native – Justin Braun made the 18-man roster just three days after being acquired via trade with Montreal. Braun did not make it into the match.
- Real Salt Lake returns to Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday, July 21, when the team will continue its battle for the Rocky Mountain Cup against the rival Colorado Rapids. Tickets for the rivalry match – which will feature post-game fireworks in honor of Pioneer Day – can be purchased at www.RealSaltLake.com or by calling (801) 727.2701.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 0 0 0
San Jose Earthquakes 1 4 5
Scoring Summary: SJ – Chris Wondolowski (Victor Bernardez, Alan Gordon) – 18'
SJ – Alan Gordon – 62'
SJ – Chris Wondolowski (Shea Salinas) – 73'
SJ – Simon Dawkins (Chris Wondolowski, Shea Salinas) – 79'
SJ – Chris Wondolowski (Khari Stephenson) – 80'
Misconduct Summary: RSL – Kwame Watson-Siriboe (Foul) – 16'
SJ – Marvin Chavez (Foul) – 26'
RSL – Jamison Olave (Foul) – 44'
RSL – Kyle Beckerman (Straight red, Argument) – 57'
SJ – Victor Bernardez (Argument) – 59'
SJ – Justin Morrow (Argument) – 59'
RSL – Kenny Mansally (Foul) – 62'
RSL – Jonny Steele (Foul) – 68'
Real Salt Lake (4-1-2-1-2) – Nick Rimando; Chris Wingert, Jamison Olave, Kwame Watson Siriboe (Sebastian Velasquez, 74'), Kenny Mansally; Kyle Beckerman (c) (Ejected, 57'); Luis Gil (Jonny Steele, 52'), Will Johnson; Javier Morales; Fabian Espindola (Emiliano Bonfigli, 78'), Alvaro Saborio
Substitutes Not Used: Kyle Reynish (GK), Terukazu Tanaka, Paulo Jr., Justin Braun
San Jose Earthquakes (4-4-2) – Jon Busch; Steven Beitashour, Victor Bernardez, Jason Hernandez, Justin Morrow; Marvin Chavez (Simon Dawkins, 69'), Sam Cronin, Rafael Baca, Shea Salinas; Chris Wondolowski (c) (Sercan Guvenisik, 81'), Alan Gordon (Khari Stephenson, 77')
Substitutes Not Used: David Bingham (GK), Jean-Marc Alexandre, Ike Opara, Jed Zayner
Referee: Allen Chapman
Referee's Assistants: C.J. Morgante, Anthony Vasoli
4th Official: Ramon Hernandez
Attendance: 10,744
Time of Game: 1:56
Weather: Clear and 67 degrees
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So BrAD from the home town of San Diego wins a Toy Machine package. He takes home one of the new Sucking the Life boards, the new 52mm sect wheels, a Down the Highway tee shirt, a Sucking the Life cap and a pair of Good skateboarding jeans. Congrats to BrAD.
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The well-preserved body of diver Dirk C. Kann, missing in Lake Michigan since 1999, has finally been recovered after several sightings over the years, Wisconsin officials say.
Kann, of Guttenberg, Iowa, was 52 when he went diving with two other men at the wreck of the Lakeland, a steamer that sank with a load of still-visible cars in 1924 off Algoma, Wis., about 125 miles northeast of Milwaukee. The shipwreck is a popular destination for divers.
Kann's body was in Whitefish Bay, a mile east of Whitefish Point in the town of Sevastopol, about 20 miles north of Algoma, officials said.
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Two divers found the body Saturday 200 feet below the surface, officials said.
Kann was still in his wetsuit, Door County Sheriff Terry Vogel told The Door County Advocate newspaper.
He was positively identified Monday during an autopsy in Green Bay.
Kann's widow, Rose Kann, told the Daily Mail the family felt great relief the body was found but that no memorials were planned.
The Advocate reported that Kann and a dive partner experienced problems while surfacing in 175 feet of water on Sept. 4, 1999.
Kann was last seen when he stopped at the 80-foot mark on a dive line to decompress – a requirement in deep dives to prevent the buildup of harmful nitrogen bubbles in the blood. The partner decompressed at the 40-foot mark. He and a third dive partner, who remained on a boat on the lake's surface, pulled on the dive line but Kann was not there, according to Advocate reports at the time.
Bottles for decompression and emergency air remained on the line where Kann was last seen.
A search was called off after two days.
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In July 2002 divers found a body believed to be Kann, but weather and equipment problems prevented the body's recovery, the Advocate reported.
Six or seven years ago, Kann's body was snagged by a fisherman but was lost, Vogel told Wisconsin media.
Besides being an avid scuba diver, Kann founded a recumbent bicycle company, Linear Mfg., in Iowa in the mid-1980s and it was later sold, according to an online company history.
Kann Mfg., started by his father, manufactures marine boats, barges and garbage trucks in Guttenberg.
A son and daughter work at Kann but they declined comment, The Advocate said.
In 2011, the body of diver Christopher Windecker was recovered from the frigid waters of Lake Tahoe 17 years after he disappeared in the mountain lake straddling the California-Nevada border.
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D. Gillory, To Date a Spike, Stack Talk (Houston: Houston Area Live Steamers, May 2006 Newsletter): pp. 6-7
Jeff's Date Nail Page http://facstaff.uindy.edu/~oaks/DateNailInfo.htm provides a fine explanation and history of date nails.
See also, the following page for images of a large variety of date nails: http://nailhunter.ehost.com/
The image shows a date nail (left) with a railroad spike (right) for comparison. To view a huge variety of the numbers stamped on the heads of date nails, see the excellent web sites above.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity is Copyright © 1988-2006 by John H. Lienhard.


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Cleveland Indians Puppypalooza returns to Progressive Field September 9
Team partners with Cleveland Animal Protective League to give owners and their pets opportunity to enjoy a night of baseball and fun at the ballpark
The Cleveland Indians invite all four-legged and two-legged friends to the return of Puppypalooza at Progressive Field on Monday, September 9. Fans can bring their dogs to the ballpark and cheer on the home team as the Indians play host to the Kansas City Royals at 7:05PM.
The canine-only event debuted at Progressive Field in 2010 and is once again in partnership with the Cleveland Animal Protective League (APL). The evening will be filled with activities, pet vendors and fun for your favorite pooch! A portion of the proceeds from each Dog Package will benefit Cleveland APL.
Dog owners, along with their best friends, will be entertained by the theatrics of Jake "The Diamond Dog" and other dog-friendly activities. The first 300 owners and dogs (300 dog maximum) also can participate in a special on-field Puppypalooza Parade during pregame ceremonies. Veterinarians from Banfield Pet Hospitals will be available during the event.
There are two ticketing options for attendees to enjoy Puppypalooza:
- Dog Package tickets for the event are dynamically priced, one (1) person for every one (1) dog.
- Additional human tickets are dynamically priced.
*Seats are limited and subject to availability. Dog packages are expected to sell out quickly!
Dog owners must show proof of proper vaccination the day of the events and complete a liability waiver prior to entrance into the ballpark. Puppypalooza tickets can be purchased and waivers available at any area Indians Team Shops, Indians Box Office or online at Indians.com/Puppypalooza.
All participants must register/check in at the Gate C/East Ninth Street Patio Entrance starting at 5:30PM on the day of the event. Doggie pools, water dishes and a dog-walking area will be available throughout the game.
Required Vaccinations:
You MUST bring a copy of your dog's vaccination records.
All dogs must be up to date on the following vaccinations:
- Rabies: given annually, but sometimes can be a 3 year.
- DHLP (Distemper, Hepatitis, Leptospirosis, Para influenza): given annually.
- Parvo: given annually, many times this is included in the DHLP and indicated as DHLPP.
- Bordatella: given either every six months or annually. Sometimes referred to as Kennel Cough or Tracheobronchitis.
More information on Puppypalooza is available by calling (216) 420-HITS (4487) or visiting Indians.com/Puppypalooza.
About Cleveland Animal Protective League (APL)
Located in Cleveland's Tremont area, the Cleveland APL is the largest, nonprofit humane society in Ohio. The APL is not governed by any national animal welfare organization. It receives no government funding for operations; it relies on donations to investigate and prosecute animal cruelty and provide shelter and care for thousands of homeless animals each year. Incorporated in 1913, the APL's mission is to foster compassion and end animal suffering. For more information visit www.clevelandapl.org or call 216.771.4616.


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Slowly and steadily, Samsung has been updating its Galaxy line-up of devices to Ice Cream Sandwich. After getting its flagship devices, the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note, out of the way by Q2 of 2012, the Korean company has been silently updating its tablets to ICS.
After rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy Tab 7.7, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, and the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung has decided to shower some Ice Cream Sandwich love on the Galaxy Tab 8.9. The Android 4.0.4 update for the tablet is already live in the United States, can Tab 8.9 owners can use Samsung's KIES software to install the update. The update is also being rolled out via OTA, but the update notification might take sometime to hit your tablet so use Samsung's KIES software if you cannot wait to get your hands on the update.
The Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy Tab 8.9 Wi-Fi will bring with it some much needed performance and stability improvements, UI tweaks, Face unlock, in-built data monitoring tool, enhanced copy and paste and in-built dictionary and much more.
Keep in mind that as of now, the update is only available for the Wi-Fi only variant of the Galaxy Tab 8.9, and not any of the carrier versions. Owners of carrier-branded variants of the tablet need to wait until the update is approved from their carrier.
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Yes, Mario Chalmers had a pleasant rookie season for a second-round pick in 2008-09. But we're not talking Derrick Rose here, or even Russell Westbrook.
Yet if you didn't know better, you'd swear that it was Chalmers, not Heat teammate Michael Beasley, who made first-team NBA All-Rookie last season.
In addressing the veteran point guards his team has been linked to in free agency, Heat President Pat Riley flatly stated Tuesday, "I'm not bringing in anybody to start over Mario Chalmers."
Understand, Allen Iverson has been vocal that he would demand the right to challenge for a starting position. And appreciate that a key to Jamaal Tinsley rehabilitating his NBA image would be a similar role.
That role, if Riley can be taken at face value, apparently is already filled for the Heat.
So what to make of Tinsley and Iverson?
Of Tinsley, Riley said, "I like Jamaal. He hasn't played for two years. He's missed a ton of games over the last four years. It's a situation that we're monitoring, talking, and so that's something we're still thinking about, but we haven't made any decisions about it. There's isn't anything pending right now."
Of Iverson, Riley said, "Allen Iverson is Allen Iverson. He's still a great, great player that's slipping through the cracks here, for whatever reasons. Whoever signs him is probably going to get a very good year out of him."
So, yes, there is interest, but, at least at this stage, muted interest.
"Both players, if we brought them in, would be on a one-year contract," Riley said. "We would not obviously be looking long term with either player. And I think they probably know that."
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Many of people have commented that it seems that sending a few prayers is just a drop in the bucket of need for the victims of a tsunami, hurricane or an earthquake. Those of us who study Edgar Cayce noted how frequently he spoke about the value of prayer.
Perhaps understanding how prayer works would help all of us to see the importance of our prayers. When a disaster of great magnitude occurs, there is a wave of grief, horror, fear, anger, bewilderment, and shaken faith that sweeps the whole planet. In the ether, this wave looks like black soot. It adds to the soot that is already there, but it is such a huge volume of new sooty blackness that we can feel the difference. We feel bad, achy, irritable, sad, and prone to tears and have queasy stomachs.
Prayer is the one spiritual tool that works in the ether. Prayer cleans up this sooty blackness, transmuting it into pure light. Prayer that comes from our hearts and is sent to all of those who are grieving, injured, afraid, confused and alone helps to clear them so that they can think more clearly. Prayer cleans the blackness of hurt and replaces it with seeds of hope and energy. Prayer is the energy that people need to get up another day and face a shattered life. That is what we can give to a person we don't know and to a place we haven't been. Prayer opens the way to cleaning up the physical mess the on-scene people feel and see.
Prayer helps us to heal ourselves. As we grieve for others, we are often grieving for things that we have lost as well. When we pray, we open ourselves up to pure light and goodness. We may not realize it, but we fill ourselves up with this light so that we can send it to other people. This serves two purposes: we are healed and we are helping other people to heal.
Karma is always efficient and any natural disaster is a karmic opportunity to rise above our own problems. It allows us to focus on giving to others what we would want the most for ourselves: the energy and the courage to go on another day, to bury our dead friends and family members and to rebuild our shattered lives.
Prayer that is part of our daily practice helps us to heal every single cell in our body because we are filling all of those cells with light so that it can be sent out to others. If we can remember to brush our teeth every day, we can remember to take our physical vitamins and our spiritual vitamin—prayer.
What kinds of prayers are best? Christ was once asked about what was the best prayer and His answer was eloquent in its simplicity: the prayer that springs naturally from your heart, the one that you feel deep within you, the one that is the easiest for you to use to communicate with God.
When you build a spiritual practice of prayer, you know that every day you are of service to others and you can feel whole in your heart because you are continuously connecting to God.
The people who will be receiving your prayers will not know you personally, but they will be grateful to you spiritually. Love and gratitude begin to clean the darkness so that life can continue.
So, each disaster is also an opportunity if we choose to view it as such, to don our spiritual aprons and become spiritual cleaning folk, cleaning the darkness and affording aid and comfort. Think how powerful our service of prayer can be in any situation!
A.R.E. note: You can join our worldwide prayer group at WorldPrayerGroup.org.


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by Abraham Ritchie
When is the proper time to review an exhibition? It's a seemingly simple question that has become complicated because of another question: what constitutes an exhibition? Concluding on February 17, the Industry of the Ordinary's sprawling retrospective Sic Transit Gloria Mundi pushes these questions to their limits, mirroring the shift in contemporary practice from traditional expectations.
Industry of the Ordinary (IOTO) is a collaboration between artists Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson, and as this exhibition demonstrates, IOTO is also a collaboration between their collective and other artistic collectives, the artists and the viewers, the artists and the general public. The objects on view reflect these interactions: photographs document various interactions both with a participating audience and with the unsuspecting public; an entire section is set apart by a kind of wooden mobile home-like structure that contain contributions from a healthy percentage of Chicago's art world.
Given the artists' wide-ranging connections to the art community it seems relevant to say that I have almost no connection to IOTO aside from meeting Mr. Brooks twice. However Bad at Sports as an entity does, and so may some of its constituent members, depending on the person.
Throughout the course of the exhibition, framed as a mid-career retrospective, a multitude of events have been scheduled and taken place. These have spilled out of the main exhibition hall into other galleries, into the interstitial spaces of the building, and to other locations throughout the city. They've branched off into multiple sub-events—the month-and-a-half performance series from the Happy Collaborationists featured no less than seven artists.
It should be abundantly clear that these events are to be considered just as much a part of the exhibition as the physical objects on display, which are themselves often documents of those events. Certainly a visit to the Chicago Cultural Center could yield a variety of experiences depending on the day, and the gallery has refigured itself over the course of the exhibition. A recent visit on a weekend day was the kind of experience that would be typical of a mid-career retrospective, with documentary materials and art objects occupying the space, whereas at the opening the art itself was set in motion, literally being actively created.
The crucial point above is that the exhibition becomes self-generative and therefore is not complete until the end. This is, of course, in contrast to the traditional art exhibition that is at the outset self-contained and complete. Therefore, one can only review and assess an exhibition like this at the end, when all of these elements have been realized.
This seems to be the essential point that the Wall Street Journal ignored to their own detriment.
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A recent trend in automation machinery has been increasing use of standard robotic arms and mechanisms to create innovative system designs. The advantage of using standard robotic building blocks is the ability to use highly engineered, tested mechanical subsystems versus developing a customized solution for a specific need.
Now, a new linear transport system from Beckhoff Automation is combining linear motion sections with built-in motion networking, control software, and the ability to use PC-based control. The transport system can be configured with an arbitrary and highly flexible path configuration, in almost any length, wireless, and controlled by a single PC via magnetic fields. From a technology point of view, it is an evolution of previous drive systems but it combines mechanical flexibility and electronics into an interesting "building block" for advanced control of machines.
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At the recent MD&M show in Philadelphia, Shane Novacek, marketing communications manager for Beckhoff, told us that the eXtended transport system (XTS) is a unique concept for combining an arbitrary number of curved or straight linear sections with any number of "movers," which can act individually or in groups. The result is a mechatronic system that offers a modular, fully integrated linear motor with power electronics and the ability to do displacement measurements all in one device.
The motor module contains the electromagnetic coils and other active functions necessary for the operation of the system. Only a power supply and an EtherCAT network connection are required. The module doesn't contain any moving parts and is not subject to wear.
The mover contains magnetic plates, which work together with the coils in the motor modules to generate motion. It absorbs the attractive forces of the magnets on both sides, and compensates for them as much as possible, which allows the rollers of the mover to run at high speed in the guide rail with low wear. There are no sliding contacts or cables to the moving part, which makes it a purely passive device.
The control and communication challenge of the XTS technology is that the drive control loops cannot be closed locally in the distributed drive modules, since the movers are moved with the aid of sequential solenoid coils. The drive amplifiers in the modules control several solenoid coils and have to deal with a continuously changing number of movers. Since the dynamic properties of the movers are to be carried beyond the module boundary, the control has to take place centrally.
EtherCAT motion networking is used to deal with these complexities using its real-time processing capabilities. Each network device picks the data intended for it from the common data frames or writes its data into these frames without first receiving, processing, and dispatching the frames again, as is usually the case. Frames are processed in the EtherCAT slave controllers during the transfer, with almost no delay.
According to Martin Rostan, head of technology marketing for Beckhoff, the net usable data rate of EtherCAT reaches more than 95 percent of the bit rate, since the Ethernet frame overhead does not occur per device and direction, but only once per approximately 1,500 bytes of process data, which can be distributed to any number of devices. High-precision clocks in the slave controllers are synchronized precisely and generate a common system clock, whose accuracy is independent of the frame sending jitter of the master. This enables EtherCAT to achieve synchronization accuracy on the distributed devices in the two-digit nanosecond range, and also means that no special hardware is required in the master.
As XTS technology continues to evolve, the goal is to offer additional types of sections and options that will further enhance the product offering.
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